Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-09
NORTHWESTERN NEWS,

NORTHWESTERNN NEWS.
The twenty ninth annual convention
Of the Minnesota State Sunday School asso-
citation closed June 80. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year:
President L. A. Gilbert, st. Paul; vice presi-
dent. M ~ Webb, zumbrota; secretary, S.
neapolis: Central Committee-R. D. Rus
sell, w. M. U. Tenny, j.. d. Blake, George
Bradbury, Hennepin county; d. s.. Taylor,
Thomas Cochran, G.. "A Woodward, j. 81.
Randall, Ramsey; Harlan w. P. Page, Rice;
Rev. Cummings, Stearns; G. p Gibson,
Dodge; j. V. Decoster, Meeker; R. A. Mott,
Rice; George r. Bidwell, Lyon; A. W.
Bradley, st. Louis.
Quite copious rains were reported
throughout Minnesota and Dakota, June 80.
Gov. Gilbert A. Pierce returned to Bis
marck June 30, from a two weeks tripthrough
out North and South Dakota, saws crop
prospects We're never better, and that reports
to the contrary are sent out for purpose.
He admits that for a limited area i'm
mediately adjoining Bismarck, jamestown
and Pierre the crops are looking poorly, but
these poor sections he says do not equal one
township in extent, At Pierre the damage
was caused by hot winds. In all other sec
tions of the territory he declares that all
conditions for big crop are favorable
Lanesboro, Mimi, special, June l.
For the first time in the history of South
eastern Minnesota an almost total failure OF
crops is likely to be experienced. The fields
are alive with chinch bugs, and together
with drouth they have made an almost
clean sweep of wheat and barley and are
now attacking corn and oats. Farmers are
cutting their wheat and barley for feed
The hay crop is a failure owing to the pro-
lopged hot and dry weather. Some far
mers are surrounding their corn fields with
tarred boards to prevent the migration OF
chinch bugs thither.
ohnJorgensonM Modest, of ST. Peter,
Mimi, was riding on the Chicago & North
western excursion train to the celebration
at Gary, Oak. When the train reached
Goodwin it was discovered that man was
missing. The section men went back and
found the ifeless remains of Modest few
miles east of Watertown. The left arm was
severed from the body and the head fear
fully mashed. The body was brought to
Watertown and placed in the hands Of DR..
Groesbeck, coroner. His death is supposed
to have been accidental,
At Glencoe, Mimi, l.. w. Jameson,
was sentenced to two years at Saltwater
for the abduction Of Emma Erbach. Miss
Erbach, under 16 years of age was taken, or
induced to leave her home in Glencoe, by
in St Paul, last September. While there.
last April, she gave birth to child, dying
at childbirth Jameson was arrested and
held under the charge of abduction and re-
celved sentence as above stated.
The most extensive fire that has oc-
CURED in Beloit took place July s. in Blodg-
EFT e Nelson's planning mill. The fire caught
in the third story in the betting, and before
it could be brought under control the whole
story, with the roof, was consumed. A large
amount Of flour was destroyed, and the ma
chinery was much injured. It is impossible
to estimate the loss. It probably will be be-
tween 5000 and $4,000, some of which is
The respective directories Of the cities
of st. Paul and Minneapolis for 1878, are
issued, that of st. Paul containing 63,231
names, an increase of 12.S73 names for the
year, and using the multiplier 2h shows a
population of 1851. The directory of
Minneapolis gives that city 59,2s1 names.
Using the multiple of ~ the same as in st.
Paul, the population OF Minneapolis would
be 149, 2O2, or 6,a76 less than that Of st. Paul.
A dispatch from Chatfeld, MINI,
says: The farmers are looking blue in this
section of the country. There is no rain,
and the chinch bugs are destroying the
crop The spring wheat and barley crop
will be q failure, and in some instances the
bugs are working in the corn and oats. If
we do not have rain within week the crops
will be complete failure here.
It is reported from Beloit, Wis, that
unless rain comes soon farming will be a
total failure this year. Haying is nearly
over and lis no crop at all. Very little rain
has fallen since April. Railway trains set
fires on the dry fields they pass through
daily, and Beloit itself has narrowly es-
An attempt to murder Tom Moore,
one Of the proprietors of the White Elephant
saloon, at Minneapolis, was made on the
9th, by Clifford Hamilton, q cOlored waiter.
Hamilton charged Moore with insulting his
wife. He fred three shots at Moore, one of
which entered just above the stomach. 1t
is thought Moore will die. Hamilton fled.
The Fourth Of July brings no record
of dire calamities, and for once the day we
celebrate, passed without tale to mar it's
interest Or happiness. There were an un-
usual number of celebrations throughout
Dakota, at which oratory and good cheer
presided and the people enjoyed holiday
OF unusual satisfaction and credit.
During the month of June, at Min
neapolis there were reported 1876 marriages
223 births and 22s deaths. az the deaths $50
were Of little children, 43 being from
cholera infantum. There were27 deaths of
persons above the age OF IS years. July 8
fifteen burial permits were issued for chill
dren.
AT Duluth, Mimi, on the 4th, a